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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by celticninja »

paulajohnson wrote: post #66
celticninja wrote: post #54

So what happens when they ask for my Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat logins and I do not have accounts with these companies? If a simple "I don't have social media accounts" is acceptable then I'm not sure why they even ask for passwords. Proving a negative is very hard.

Lying to them is a serious criminal offense carrying (IIRC) up to 5 years in prison. Even a harmless fib counts.

But I am not lying, I dont have facebook, or twitter or snapchat. How do I prove I dont have these accounts? What if I do have a FB account that i signed up for years ago, never use, forgot to delete, dont know the password for? Do I get a stay in prison for that?

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by falcodream »

8draco8 wrote: post #10

I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I'm Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost…

I agree with your observations, but I wanted to offer a positive viewpoint on them. One thing I learned about the US over the years is that a lot of law enforcement's heavy-handedness is an emergent property of supporting a country with extreme notions of personal liberty, not a reaction against it. The gamut of socially acceptable behavior is much wider in the US. That's necessarily reflected in how their police function, and shouldn't be to their detriment.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by pg314 »

dx034 wrote: post #205
pg314 wrote: post #182

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> Traveling to the US is a breeze for Europeans. No, it isn't. I am European, travelled twice to the US last year. Each time multi-hour wait for the USCBP check. From take-off in Brussels to landing in NYC took less time than getting from JFK to Manhattan. If I can avoid it, I will not be travelling to the US any time soon.

Really? Since they installed the new machines that you can use with ESTA, I haven't waited more than 10 minutes for the machine, plus another 5-15 min for the final check. No extensive questions anymore, maybe 1-2 in total. Waiting times entering the UK (even with passport machines) can easily be as long.

Yes. The first time they didn't have the new machines yet. The second time, they had the machines, but they didn't work for my passport. That didn't matter (except for some stress that they might turn me away), since you still had to queue afterwards anyway.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by crummy »

Markoff wrote: post #134
HappyTypist wrote: post #64

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Are you serious? Strip and cavity searches? This needs to be on the media.

it's not that uncommon even in Europe to be honest, if you will find German policeman who had bad day and you drive car with foreign (PL, CZ mostly) license plate you can be searched same way under suspicion of carrying drugs and you can do nothing about it and it's happening occasionally

do we have the same definition of "cavity search"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_cavity_search

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by rco8786 »

sgift wrote: post #109
laGrenouille wrote: post #101

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Not really a fair statement given the oddities of the electoral college. I know a lot of people in big coastal cities (New York, Boston, LA, San Fransisco, Seattle) who don't vote but are very anti-Trump. They know it doesn't matter because their states were always going to go strongly for the Democrats.

I'm not from the U.S., so my knowledge here is a bit sketchy, but wasn't one of the problems Clinton had exactly that some states which always voted for the Democrats fell to the Republicans this time?

Not really. Both bases stayed pretty true to their colors.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by rapind »

alphapapa wrote: post #176
microtonal wrote: post #45

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We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington. Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump's travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political/security climate improves. Semi-related: we were in the mark…

> Semi-related: we were in the market for a new car. One of the factors we decided to go for a European car this time (we had a Ford Focus before) is that we'd like to support Trump America as little as possible. What an exciting new world we live in, in which, before we do any kind of business or trade with a company which has a presence in a foreign country, we must consider all of the policies of that country's cu…

Sounds to me like voting with your pocket book. How is this a bad thing?

Would you also object if I didn't want to purchase clothes that are manufactured in a way I find morally deplorable? Hey it's not the workers fault right?

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by sortaThrowaway »

ItendToDisagree wrote: post #188
kyrre wrote: post #158

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The study linked in your article has been updated (Spoiler alert: Radical Islam has retaken the lead by 2x) https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/wha... How would it look if we factored in the relative population? > B-but you are more likely to be killed by white trucker driver falling asleep than a jihadist truck hijacker. Misleading much?

Only in the past two years have there been more jihadist deaths. Not sure where you got 2x from? Unless you mean one particular year? You may want to re-read. In reality the KKK has killed more people than all jihadists combined. That is one group.

The KKK is like some mythical beast brought out every couple years to scare people.

It is almost non existent.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by mobiplayer »

alphapapa wrote: post #176
microtonal wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington. Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump's travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political/security climate improves. Semi-related: we were in the mark…

> Semi-related: we were in the market for a new car. One of the factors we decided to go for a European car this time (we had a Ford Focus before) is that we'd like to support Trump America as little as possible. What an exciting new world we live in, in which, before we do any kind of business or trade with a company which has a presence in a foreign country, we must consider all of the policies of that country's cu…

What kind of influence on voters is OK in your books? Political rallies where you lie about what you'll do and about your opponents? Discussions with friends? TV ads?

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by croon »

klausjensen wrote: post #71
bkor wrote: post #63

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Around half did want him? That's a significant of people to me, no matter if they have the majority or not.

Technically, only ~57% of eligible voters actually voted. Of those, about half voted for Trump. So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. That is pretty standard for a US presidential election. Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/10/13587462/...

Technically, 27% of eligible voters voted for the Republican party. How many of those voted for Trump is unknown. But it's definitely less than all of them.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by afandian »

dbbk wrote: post #220
afandian wrote: post #130

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Mind sharing your story? And, though it's unfortunate to ask, can you think of any reasons why you in particular were singled out?

I was just going to the US for a convention then staying for a few weeks afterwards. The question that arose suspicion was why I'd booked to stay in a hotel rather than stay at a friend's house. Ridiculous. Anyway yeah, I had to collect my luggage and they then opened it up and rummaged through it. Asked why I wasn't taking a video game console despite ostensibly going to a video game convention. My response was of c…

Were you just picked out when your passport was being stamped? When you handed your immigration form in? Did someone approach you in baggage reclaim?
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